(January 22, 2015 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:I can easily conceive existential nihilism given that we have no reason to believe that our consciousness survives brain death, that 99% of people who have ever lived are utterly obscure and unknown, and nobody's accomplishments will make any difference to anything when either our species, our planet, our solar system, or our Universe is annihilated. May I suggest a new creation! Yet the idea of purpose doesn't exactly seem to be satisfied in the idea of eternity either, regardless if it's one where in which we don't exist at all or one where we're sitting on golden thrones singing kumbaya. I mean the idea of an end is that it is itself purposeful, and death is definitely more intrinsically meaningful, given natural selection, than simply living for the sake of living or being some God's plaything.(January 22, 2015 at 3:09 pm)robvalue Wrote: If there's no God then what's the point of life? Never understood that one.Simple. Purely physical processes just happen; they are not directed to any goals. If your life was a purely physical process then it could not support purposes and meanings.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza